The Alas Pilipinas girls may have run out of runway in Pool B, but their historic FIVB U17 World Championship debut still has another chapter to write.
A gloomy Monday morning in Manila got a little gloomier. Alex Eala ended he stirring run at the National Bank Open in the Round of 16, where the 21-year-old Filipina fell to former champion and World No. 14 Belinda Bencic, 6-4, 6-0, in Toronto.
The latest raids by the Bureau of Internal Revenue on cockpits across Metro Manila and nearby provinces have put an increasingly lucrative, but largely opaque, revenue stream under the taxman’s microscope.
Seven break points may have been the difference. So, perhaps, was everything Alex Eala had learned about surviving when a tennis match refuses to behave.